Updating time, hurray, this is going to be one interesting chapter, btw some of it might not be so good cuz I've been feeling depressed and really down when I wrote this, but I hope it's to your liking anyway, Read along!
"THEY WON!" Kim yelled happily and excitedly, for the past forty five minutes the four duelists had dueled and the last bit was pretty intense because the Meikyu brothers had set up a labrynth and their decks worked with that labrynth strategy. In order to get out Jounouchi and Yugi had to win the duel and for a few rounds it didn't look like they would, but they had and now the group was one step closer to Pegasus's castle. Yugi and Jounouchi put the star chips into their gloves smiling happily.
"heh, the game isn't over yet." one of the brothers said. The group looked over to the brothers as if they were crazy,
"What are you laughing about? We just beat you." Jounouchi said
"Oh yes, you have our respect for beating us in our own labrynth, but remember you still have to guess the door out.
"You haven't forgotten that you said at the beginning that if we beat one of you then one door would open, we beat both of you." Yugi reminded them with a confident smirk.
"only one door will open." the two brothers said firmly
"that's not fair!" Jounouchi whined
"Then this whole duel was pointless." Kim grumbled
"Yeah there was no point in defeating the two at the same time." Cat agreed a little peeved herself.
"Now choose your fate, on the right is the Kyu door, on your left is the Mei door." Yugi stared hard at the two doors in concentration,
"Ug Yugi I can't think this way anymore, it's all yours." Jounouchi groaned tragically.
"Pull yourself together man!" Honda exclaimed
"There are four possible answers, one Mei is correct, Two Kyu is correct, three both are correct, or four both aren't correct and there's a third door in here." Yugi stated, Kim raised one eyebrow
"No offense Yugi but that's kind of a silly idea."
"It would make sense...I suppose." Cat defended. The two brothers smirked confidently
"Ok so you think there's a third door? We'll give you five minutes to search the room from top to bottom." they offered. The friends all scattered to the walls, Honda and Jounouchi looking on the floor. Cat and Kim searching one wall and Ryou and Anzu searching another. Yugi stayed where he was.
As Kim was tapping the wall she felt an odd sensation in the room, she couldn't quite describe it, only that something was tugging at her heart...or soul, something sinister and dark, it sent shivers down her spine and her skin feel cold. Five feet away from her Ryou froze too as he heard a voice in his head
"Heh Heh, I'll tell you which door it is." the voice whispered. Brown eyes widened as he spun the room to locate the voice "It's me you fool," the voice hissed
"N-no,"
"How long are you going to waste your time playing these petty games boy? Put me on and I'll tell you which door it is, it'll be easy for a thief like me."
"Something wrong Bakura?" anzu asked, Ryou turned to her and shook his head then turned his head back, Kim caught a glimpse of his face, it was even paler than before and sweat was starting to form on his forehead. She frowned a little, that stupid sensation just wouldn't go away.
"What? Afraid I'd hurt your friends?" the voice taunted but it did sound extremely irritated "I'm trying to help you"
"I won't listen to you." Ryou whispered back
"You won't eh? Well let me tell you something...if you don't put me on your friends will be trapped here. Forever!"
"Five minutes are up."
"Yugi we couldn't find another door." Jounouchi said as the group gathered together
"What about you Bakura?" Cat asked, Bakura's shook his head no as he stopped right next to Kim. Kim gasped a little, that weird feeling was getting stronger. Her heart was beating much faster than ever, even when she ran a marathon, Kim gripped the side of her jeans as her hands were beginning to tremble and sweat beyond her control, she couldn't even will herself to stop.
"Which will it be? The Mei door?"
"Or the Kyu door?"
Yugi merely held up two coins with Kyu and Mei written on them, everybody stared at him confused.
"If you're going to do a coin toss it won't help you."
"Watch and learn." Yugi started "I have two coins in my hands the one that stays in my hand is the door I'll pick. Are you ready?" Yugi set the two coins down and lifted his left hand, Kyu was shown
"Ah so the other coin is Mei?" one brother asked
"He chose Mei?" Bakura whispered to himself, Kim's breath caught in her throat it now felt difficult to breathe "Yugi Kyu is the right door."
"Too bad! You should've listend to your friend. The correct door is Kyu." the brothers exclaimed gleefully, Yugi chuckled
"I knew it. All the clues were written on your smug little faces, If I said Kyu you would've said Mei is correct, if I chose Mei you would've said Kyu is correct, in other words you just switch the door after your opponent guesses." Yugi explained
"Well that's too bad, you said Mei. We win, you will stay down here forever and-"
"Too bad for you...I chose the Kyu door." Yugi lifted his other hand, both coins had the Kyu symbol on it.
"WHAT?"
"On one coin I wrote Kyu, on the other I wrote down both Mei and Kyu, I forgot to mention...one of my hands doens't play fair." Yugi said smugly,
The air around Kim had felt tight but in an instant it didn't feel that way anymore, her heart beat went back to normal and the trembling in her body ceased,
"What just happened? Did you win Yugi?" Ryou asked with his usual charming smile. Anzu gave him a weird look whereas Kim just stared at him a little curiously. The Kyu door opened and the group of friends walked right on out into another tunnel.
"Feh, what a bunch of liars. Both doors lead out." Honda complained. Kim sighed and put a hand to her forehead feeling a slight headache coming on. As they walked through the tunnel they saw a faint light
"ITS SUNLIGHT! WE'RE FREE!" Jounouchi exclaimed as he ran up the tunnel steps.
Meanwhile up in Pegasus's castle Kaiba sat on a chair holding a gun and keeping an Industrial Illusions employee hostage in his briefcase of doom.
"Kaiba let him go!" Kemo demanded, Kaiba merely smirked
"Then bring me Pegasus, Or I'll snap his so-called advisors neck." he threatened. The employees stood there feeling helpless, they had already informed Pegasus but the man told them to wait til the time was right. "I know you cowards have taken Mokuba prisoner so you better fess up, where is he?" Kaiba asked
"I-I don't know..." Croquet said desperatly
"Hm.." Kaiba added more pressure on the briefcase "I've already removed my most important cards in there, so if you continue to decieve me with your lies I won't hesitate to take your life, your blood will be easy to wash off." Croquet started to panic then, he knew the young CEO was quite serious in this threat and he would rather stay alive but he didn't want to ruin his boss's plan. (what a good employee)
Back outside the Castle the group had climbed the steps and out into the bright sunshine
"So where are we?" Cat asked looking around, Kim groaned as she laid on the ground and stretched out,
"Well the castle is over there. So close! I say we take a small break." she said lazily, Yugi laughed a little bit as he sat near her
"I think that's not a bad idea." he agreed. As the friends sat down they heard a helicopter fly over them and land maybe wenty feet away.
"What the heck?" Cat asked as she stood up, Jounouchi and Honda squinted
"Someone's getting out of there." Jounouchi said, Kim sighed draping an arm around her eyes
"It's most likely Kaiba, he probably got tired of walking and just flew there." She responded, Cat giggled at her response
"Unless Kaiba grew blonde hair and put on a dress I doubt it's him." Cat told her, Kim's eyes snapped open as she stood up
"WHAT? HE did what?" She shouted, Cat laughed and pointed, out stepped a girl with a large sunhat but you could see some blonde hair with darker highlights sticking out. She was wearing a short black dress and sunglasses. "Oh whew, I thought you were serious." Kim said,
"A HOT GIRL!" Jounouchi exclaimed, "She's headed towards the castle! Let's go!" he shouted, Kim and Cat sweatdropped as Jounouchi and Honda started running towards the steps.
"Hello Kaiba-boy." Pegasus said into a computer, Kaiba looked to his left and noticed Pegasus on a computer screen
"Pegasus, I know you kidnapped my brother and tried taking over my company-" Kaiba began but Pegasus cut him off
"Oh Kaiba boy you disappoint me, where did you learn such manners?" he asked in a fake disappointed voice. Kaiba growled and was about to give his rival a piece of his mind verbally when a door opened and Pegaus looked over
"Uncle, I brought you the papers." A voice said in the background, Kaiba frowned a little as a girl with a large sunhat, short black dress with black boots, and sunglases came into the room. "Oh sorry, I didn't realize you had company..." she trailed off,
"Don't worry about it my dear, welcome home." Pegasus said as he embraced his said niece
"Well I'm sure that the papers have everything you desire." the girl said confidently, Kaiba made an impatient "Tch" sound.
"Thanks for doing this hon."
"It's no trouble, besides I got some shopping done, Well I'll be in my room," she left and Kaiba waited impatiently as Pegasus fumbled with a few things before returning his attention to his rude house guest.
"Pegasus I want my brother back, and for you to leave my company alone!" Kaiba demanded
"Tell you what Kaiba boy, duel Yugi boy and when you have ten star chips you may return and I'll duel you." Pegasus said.
"Here you go , these are the five star chips your brother took." Kemo told him handing him five star chips. Kaiba scowled as he lifted his foot releasing Croquet and stalking out of the room.
The girl from eariler arrived to her said room and took off her hat first smoothing out her blonde hair with darker highlights, then she took off her sunglasses revealing green eyes before she sat down at a desk and began writing a letter.
Dear Adelinda,
how is school? I just got home from Great Britain. It was really nice there. Next time you come and visit I'll give you the present I bought for you. Bet you can't guess what it is.
The Black Cat strikes again! I won my last tournaments with ease. I'm thinking of going for European champion instead of just German. What do you think? And do you think I should use my Blue Eyes White Dragons? I never did and it seems a shame that I made them and never duel with them. How is your friend, Annarosa, doing? You never sent me any pictures of you two. Why is that? C'mon, sis. I only see you two times during the year: Christmas and Summer. Throw me a bone.
Well, I'm gonna wrap up this letter, then unwrap it, put it in an envelope, and send it to you. Yeah, I know that joke sucked. Have mercy on me here.
Love ya, Sis.
Sincerely,
Kay
Back outside the castle Kim and Ryou were rushing up the steps together to reach Jounouchi and Honda. Anzu followed them but half heartedly, down at the bottom of the steps Cat and Yugi were talking to each other, Cat making a few gestures and Yugi smiling at her laughing here and there.
However Kim was smiling down at the two, it was then she remembered what had happened down in the caves where she felt that odd sensation, especially when Ryou had stood by her. But Ryou was standing not even a foot away from her and she felt fine. She shook her head, maybe she was having a slight hypoglycemia moment down there? She and Ryou reached the top steps panting, Kim put her hands on her knees
"Man, I don't even need to worry about my lack of jogging three miles." Kim said in between pants and gasps.
"You run three miles a day?" Jounouchi asked, Kim nodded
"Yeah, it's good for you," she told him. Honda rolled his eyes
"Hurry up you two!" Anzu hollered down to Cat and Yugi down below. Cat blushed a little as she and Yugi picked up the pace
"hey look theres somebody up there." Honda said, sure enough at the top of the stairs there stood Seto Kaiba blocking their path
"Kaiba!" Jounouchi called "What's he doing here?" he added with a grumble
"Maybe...he needs us to get in?" Cat suggested, Kim scowled a little remembering the previous night and how he had insulted Jounouchi and them to a certain extent
"Kaiba get out of our way, if you don't here in a few minutes you're body is gonna be rolling down these steps." Jounouchi threatened.
"Kaiba. Let us pass." Yugi said calmly
"Yugi, I knew you would beat all the opponents on this island no matter how strong, I let you beat them because there's only one person on this island that can beat you...and that person is me." Kaiba said confidently. Everybody stared at him a little confused right now
"Suurrre. That's why he beat you in the first place isn't it?" Kim asked, Kaiba spared her a glare
"Shut up Simmin, you weren't even there." he snapped then turned back to Yugi "As long as we both live we'll be thorns in each others sides, always battling for the top. The winds of battle blow past where we fight" (no joke this is what Kaiba says in the manga)
"Bit dramatic isn't he?" Cat asked Kim,
"It's a freaking card game." Kim replied
"Let me at him, I'll punch his lights out." Jounouchi said stepping forward, Ryou and Honda grabbed him quickly to stop him from doing so,
"Hmph, I'm impressed you earned ten star chips, did Yugi lend you some?" Kaiba asked, Jounouchi growled menacingly "Yugi! I challenge you to a duel." Kaiba declared
"Yugi you've already got ten star chips you don't have to prove anything." Anzu protested,
"I accept this duel Kaiba. And I will defeat you."
"Follow me to our dueling stage." Kaiba ordered then spun on his heel.
"Uncle what are you up to for the rest of today?" the girl known as Kay came into a dining room where her Uncle-Pegasus-was sitting down sipping from a glass of wine
"Nothing much Kay, I have a dinner party with any duelists who make it into the castle tonight. Will you join us?" he asked, Kay shook her head
"No thank you." she replied a little coldly "I would prefer to eat in my room."
"Very well, sit down and tell me about your trip, I want to hear all about it." Pegasus smiled at his neice.
"Look at him, he's just standing there." Jounouchi said gleefully "It must mean he's accepted defeat."
The battle between Kaiba and Yugi had gone on maybe twenty minutes-according to Kim's watch-and while Kaiba had dueled well Yugi had him cornered with a combo that weakened his Blue Eyes Ultimate Drago which was now at a mere 900 attack points.
"I banish all my kuriboh's and summon Celtic Guardian, attack!" The celtic guardian took off one of the Blue Eyes reducing Kaiba's life points to four hundred.
"I lost five hundred life points from that." Kaiba muttered dully, "These squares will represent a hundred of those." he took five steps back standing on the castle's edge.
"Kaiba?" Yugi asked,
"I have nothing left to lose, if you attack you will win this game and I will die, the force of your blow will cause me to fall." Kaiba explained
"You spoiled creep, that's fighting dirty! Making a bluff like that just so you can win" Jounouchi hollered over to him. Kaiba merely kept his cool gaze on Yugi
"What if it's not a bluff?" Ryou asked a little worriedly
"Why would Kaiba risk his life like that?" Cat asked her eyes widening. Kim frowned over at the tall CEO
"Yugi, on your next turn your true duelist self will be revealed. A duel is like two mirrors facing each other, in order to win you've got to think like your opponent and then you'll find out your true self." Kaiba said crossing his arms "If our positions were reversed I would push you over without a seconds thought. But this doesn't mean I give up, it's my turn and I draw." he drew from his deck and smirked "I play Monster Reborn and ressurect one Blue Eyes. Unfortunately I have to wait a turn to attack, it's your turn now Yugi."
off to the side everybody stared at Yugi wondering what he will do? Would Kaiba be serious and commit suicide?
"YUGI! SLIT MY THROAT WITH YOUR CARD?" Kaiba bellowed.
"He's really serious." Kim said, Yugi hesitated only one more second
"Alright Kaiba, I'll do it! Celtic Guardian attack!"
"He did it?" Kim asked in shock her jaw dropping, Cat looked at Yugi in shock
"NO YUGI...STOP!" she called out, Yugi's eyes widened and the finger he used to direct Celtic Guardian's attack started shaking
"...STOP!" he screamed sinking to his knees, Celtic Guardian stopped in the nick of time. Kaiba glared
"I win. Burst stream!"
And after that the duel was done, Yugi had lost. Kaiba walked over to him and took the five star chips from his glove.
"I won." Kaiba said uncaringly, Jounouchi ran forward to his friend
"yugi, Yugi, are you ok?" he asked worriedly, Yugi sat on his knees as tears poured from his eyes
"I-I couldn't do it, I couldn't kill Kaiba." he whimpered. "I couldn't, I couldn't."
the group sat around him patting him on the back
"Yugi, you did the right thing, it's ok." Kim said reassuringly,
"Don't Cry yugi, you're a boy," Anzu tried cheering him up,
"You showed weakness in the end Yugi, that's why I won. Caring about the enemy's well being is the stupides thing a duelist can ever do." Kaiba told him, Kim ground her teeth together
"That's not true!" Anzu spoke up "facing yourself no matter how tough things get and to keep on fighting is the real game. You bet your life as if it was nothing, when you realized you were going to lose you didn't have the courage to keep living." Anzu explained "It is you who has lost."
"I won because Yugi was a coward who couldn't kill me, he was spineless and weak." Kaiba snapped. Yugi winced at those words. Kim stood up
"Listen you jerk." she started "You won on default! You freaking threatened to commit suicide for a card game, Yugi is man enough to NOT let you die no matter how much you deserve it!" she cried out to him
"Whatever, you're no duelist in my eyes, hell you're not even worth arguing with." Kaiba sneered, Kim kept on glaring
"I don't care what you think about me Seto Kaiba, I know who I am and that's enough for me, unlike you! You left after one loss because "you didn't know who you were" and you call Yugi a coward!" she spat. "That is the reason why you're here, because another CEO saw a good opportunity to take you down in your absence,"
Kaiba snarled almost at loss as to what to say, she had hit directly home, his down turned mouth soon curved into a sneer "Say what you want, it's still the howl of a loser!" he retorted
"Fine go then!" Jounouchi threw the other part of Kaiba's duel disk at him "and take this with you."
"Cheer up Yugi, there's still some duelists around and I bet you can win five more." Honda said to him, Yugi smiled a little
"Ok, I won't give up."
"I'll leave Pegasus's remains to you." Kaiba said as he strode off
"What a jerk." Cat muttered then turned to Kim who was looking out in space shaking in rage. "Nice going there by the way." she said smiling a little. Kim took a deep breath and looked at her.
"T-thanks. I guess. I can't stand that creep." she muttered.
"We don't have time, the suns setting, come on we gotta get five more star chips somehow." Jounouchi said,
"Right." Yugi said as he followed Jounouchi down the stairs, they ran and ran until they saw the entrance. Kemo was standing out there
"Hey, see that boat over there." he called to them, everybody looked out to the sea a little boat was sailing away "Those are all the duelists who lost their star chips, except you."
"Aw crap, so there's no more duelists?" Kim asked worried
"In other words the four finalists have been decided,"
"He has ten star chips." Yugi pointed to Jounouchi
"Yes, so he is one, Bandit Keith is the other and another came by earlier but left saying they were going to go get the fourth duelist." Kemo explained "in other words...you're not in Yugi."
"NO!" the friends all shouted,
"Yugi...take my star chips." Jounouchi said starting to take his glove off "I never would've gotten this far without you,"
"No, you got them for your sister...I can't take them." Yugi said faintly sitting down again, his eyes had lost the glimmer of hope,
"Hey there you all are!" a familiar voice said behind them
"Mai?" Kim asked turning around "You're one of the finalists?"
"WHA-you got ten star chips Jounouchi?"
"It's gonna be half of that now." Jounouchi replied,
"No way, Yugi only has five? I won't allow that. Here Yugi." Mai held out six extra star chips "I have an extra set take them" Mai ordered, Yugi looked at her and then shook his head
"No. I can't accept them," he said quietly
"Yugi just take them." Anzu protested. Yugi shook his head
"I can't." he almost whined "I just can't do it."
"Yugi..." Kim said sadly "the-then fight her, battle for them, there's a simmulator box near by." but Yugi continued to look at the ground in silence.
"Just because you lost one lousy duel doesn't mean it's the end of the world." Mai told him but Yugi just shook his head no. "Fine, then I'll go to Pegasus's castle without you," Mai snapped hoping it would make Yugi change his mind, but Yugi didn't say anything. Mai turned around to emphasize that she was serious,
"Yugi! Just take them!" Honda shouted,
"Wait Mai!" Cat called "If Yugi won't duel you for them...I will!" she challenged reaching into her pocket and taking out her deck, everybody's jaws dropped seeing Cat step confidently towards Mai,
"Look hon, I appreciate your gesture for Yugi...but you-"
"But nothing, I challenge you to a duel for them!" Cat said determindly, Mai nodded
"Fine, follow me to a simmulator box." she instructed, Cat nodded and followed the older woman to the duel box.
"She's really going to do this." Kim said, smiling she followed the two girls, soon after everybody went along to watch their newest friends duel each other.
Whew, I'm done. Yay next chapter is Cat vs Mai, who will win? Place your bets,
anywho I just want to say that I won't be updating for a few weeks because I really need to concentrate on other fics and my school work*sweatdrop*
OH Disclaimer time, the girl that had a few moments in this chapter is the OC of a very good friend of mine, so Kay is in ownership of Nintendo_Queen, and she has her own parody story Sunshine and Moonshine, if you haven't read it I strongly encourage it. Her letter was not written by me but by her (obviously) :P so please make a warm welcome to Kay Simms